"There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity…"

"No man knows what the wife of his bosom is—no man knows what a ministering angel she is—until he has gone with her th…"

"As the dove will clasp its wings to its side, and cover and conceal the arrow that is preying on its vitals, so it is…"

"A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for emp…"

"These whimm’ Crown’d shees, these fashion-fancying wits, Are empty thin brain’d shells, and fiddling Kits."

"I long to hear that you have declared an independancy—and by the way in the new Code of Laws ... I desire you would R…"

"Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cann…"

"How little do lovely women know what awful beings they are, in the eyes of inexperienced youth! Young men brought up …"

"I wave often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune.…"

"American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum."