My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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

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

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.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

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

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.