A Little Of What You Call Frippery

We Have Too Many High-sounding Words, And Too Few Actions That Correspond With Them.

What Is Meat For One Is Not For Another--no Accounting For Fancy.

If We Mean To Have Heroes, Statesmen And Philosophers, We Should Have Learned Women. The World Perhaps Would Laugh At Me, And Accuse Me Of Vanity, But You I Know Have A Mind Too Enlarged And Liberal To Disregard The Sentiment. If Much Depends As Is Allowed Upon The Early Education Of Youth And The First Principals Which Are Instill'd Take The Deepest Root, Great Benefit Must Arise From Literary Accomplishments In Women.

The Reins Of Government Have Been So Long Slackened, That I Fear The People Will Not Quietly Submit To Those Restraints Which Are Necessary For The Peace And Security Of The Community.

My Bursting Heart Must Find Vent At My Pen.