Great necessities call out great virtues.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

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

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

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

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.

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.