When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.