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

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

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

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.