These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
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… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
