In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.

With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.