The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

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.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.