Few of those maladies with which your sex are visited at such a period should be dangers - they are however all troublesome & call for a husbands care & a husbands fondness.
– Robert Baldwin
I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.
– Robert Baldwin
My organs are too powerful . . . I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.
– Robert Baldwin
When a person acts only on their own Judgment they are always fearful of being wrong. . . . Not that I admire indecision on the contrary I dislike it much. I know however it is one of my own faults & it pervades more or less everything I do.