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

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.