These are the times when a genius wants to live.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

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 since.

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 has taken its flight.

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

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