I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed;

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.