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

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

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active..

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

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

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….

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

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance..

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the preroga….

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls..

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whateve….

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point.

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, bu….

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercou….

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, ….