Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

What right does a society have to call itself human, if it does not act like one, instead keeps quarreling and slaughtering in the name of the petty differences that they themselves have created!

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.