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

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

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

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

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

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

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

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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