[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.