“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

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

“What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.”

“Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.”