“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.”

Great necessities call out great virtues.

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

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.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

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.

Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!

Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

These are the 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.

You know Hachi, your life depends only on ourselves. I’m still convinced about this… But I’ve also learned to accept that people… don’t all become as strong, and it made me kinder than before.

Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.

I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators.

Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.