The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

To tell your soul that you love it, is like remembering who you are after being in a coma for a hundred years. Your face will beam the light of a hundred galaxies.

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.

A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?