"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."

"Barbarous nations display this superiority, by reducing their females to the most abject slavery; by confining them, by beating them, by selling them, by killing them."

"Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what has a reference to sentiment or feeling, can have no other standard than the sentiment or fee…"

"All human life must perish, were his principles to prevail. All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an e…"

"Some exalt our species to the skies, and represent man as a kind of human demigod, who derives his origin from heaven, and retains evident marks of his lineage and descent. Others insist upon the blin…"