"A great many women and men, too, make a point of never thinking about a subject without having taken a side first."

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

"It is a significant indication of the present state of society, that the greater part of the women, who have any independence of mind, are found in the lower classes."

"I am more than ever convinced that it is not by reason that we can expect to influence mankind."

"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."