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

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

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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.

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

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

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