I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

These are the 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. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

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.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

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

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.