Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.