[i]t Is Well To Have As Many

Men Have Had Every Advantage Of Us In Telling Their Own Story. Education Has Been Theirs In So Much Higher A Degree; The Pen Has Been In Their Hands. I Will Not Allow Books To Prove Anything.

I Think Him Every Thing That Is Worthy And Amiable.

None Of Us Want To Be In Calm Waters All Our Lives.

And Pictures Of Perfection, As You Know, Make Me Sick And Wicked.

Real Solemn History, I Cannot Be Interested In.... The Quarrels Of Popes And Kings, With Wars And Pestilences In Every Page; The Men All So Good For Nothing, And Hardly Any Women At All.