Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

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

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

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

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.