The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem….

Great necessities call out great virtues..

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women..

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it s….

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken..

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe..

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors..

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you w….

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature..

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obli….

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them..

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on th….

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight..

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them..

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the han….

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons..

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each oth….

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy..

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance..

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them..

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irre….