If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.