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.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

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

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.