“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with 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, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
“I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.”
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
“I acknowledge myself a unitarian — Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. … There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.”
“Do not put such unlimited powers in the hands of the husband, Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
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