Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

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.

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.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.