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.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.