Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely…

Whoever says he knows that immortality is a fact is merely hoping that it is.

Though he knows that knowledge is imperfect, he trusts it alone. If he takes, therefore, the less delight in metaphysics, he takes the more in physics.

I perceive that the race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

There is no trustworthy evidence as to a god's absolute existence.

There is no reason why a woman should not receive the same pay for the same work as a man. To argue otherwise is to argue against justice.

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.