When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

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

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.