Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
From Abigail Adams
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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.'
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.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
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