I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

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

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.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

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