I acknowledge myself a unitarian

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.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

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.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

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.

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.