We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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

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

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

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