“When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?”

“Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.”

“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”

“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.”