If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
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.
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.'
