If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

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

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

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.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

Great necessities call out great virtues.