Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.