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.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

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.

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