If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

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

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

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.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Great necessities call out great virtues.