“Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.”

“Eureka! (I have found it!).”

“Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.”

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”

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

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

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