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

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

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

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

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.

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.