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..

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….

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the pub….

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in….

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents..

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..

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could..

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners..

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act..

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen..

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..

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches..

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composur….

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.

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….

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to 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….