The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

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

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

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.