The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.