May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

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.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

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

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 other.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

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 which we have no voice, or representation.