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.

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.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

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

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.