From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could....
I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are f...
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.