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.

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

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

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.