"Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands."

"If you complain of neglect of Education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience …"

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

"I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me — to …"

"How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our h…"

"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ev…"

"The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restrain…"

"I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrin…"

"I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And by the way, in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it wil…"

"I can not say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for Whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men…"