“These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”

But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof

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.

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

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

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.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

I wish I was better looking.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.