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

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

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

Everything yields to diligence.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.