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

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

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

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.

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

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’

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

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

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

…remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could....

Great necessities call out great virtues.

change is always hard, but we believe this is in their best interest too.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: “The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits...

I hate to complain…No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

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

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal’d from you. Do not judge by...

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

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.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

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.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother. I cannot overcome my too selfish sorrow, all her tenderness towards me, her care and anxiety for my welfare at all...

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character....