I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Response to clapping: "Thank you for ovating."

When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things.