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

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

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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

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

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

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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.

It is only in embracing my darkness that we can appreciate our life in the light.

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.