A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

The marketplace is democratic.