Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to forment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Expectations have so long and so often been combated by disappointment that I feel myself unhappy, my spirits which were naturally cheerful are depressed and the enjoyments of life are growing very insipid to me.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

One month of daily expectation is more tedious than a year of certainty.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

What is meat for one is not for another -- no accounting for fancy.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

Amidst these delightfull scenes of Nature, my Heart pants for the society of my dear Relatives and Friends who are too far removed from me.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

We have been a scattered family. If some of my children could now be collected round the parent Hive it appears to me, that it would add much to the happiness of our declining years.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

There is envy and jealousy sufficient in the world to seek to lessen a character however beneficial to the country or useful to the state.

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.