"Nothing is more apt to surprise us than the extreme poverty of opinion, which prevails in this country, with regard to questions of morals, politics, and religion."

"Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad; but the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. -- Were one to go round the world with an intention of giving…"

"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular."

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

"In order, therefore, to impose a due restraint on the female sex, we must attach a peculiar degree of shame to their infidelity, above what arises merely from its injustice, and must bestow proportion…"