If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

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.

To every whisper if you listen carefully, you will hear or fail to hear something.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.