"I have often thought that the world is a vast prison, where the greater part of mankind are condemned to wear their fetters."

"I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly."

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

"What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident."