When Men Know Not What To Do,

If We Mean To Have Heroes, Statesmen And Philosophers, We Should Have Learned Women.

I Am More And More Convinced That Man Is A Dangerous Creature And That Power, Whether Vested In Many Or A Few, Is Ever Grasping, And Like The Grave, Cries, 'give, Give.'

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

How Difficult The Task To Quench The Fire And The Pride Of Private Ambition, And To Sacrifice Ourselves And All Our Hopes And Expectations To The Public Weal! How Few Have Souls Capable Of So Noble An Undertaking!

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.