I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

My husband - my king.