Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.