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

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.

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

Great necessities call out great virtues.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

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.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

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

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Great learning and superior abilities will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honour, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.