Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

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

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.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.