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

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

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.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

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

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

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