"I am not a mere shadow, but a substance."

"Women are rendered feeble and wretched by a variety of causes, some of which are natural, but more are artificial."

"I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it."

"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"

"I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage."