We are all alike, on the inside.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.