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

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

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.

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.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.