Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

The power of making war often prevents it.