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 intercourse with the learned.

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

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.

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.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

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