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

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.

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.

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

If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root

And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

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

When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

These are the times when a genius wants to live.