…You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances…
…Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands...
…If much depends as is allowed upon the early education of youth and the first principles which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women…
…These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed…
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues…
…Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go.…We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Smith Adams - Letter to John Adams (1774)
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