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.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

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

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.

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

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.