I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.