The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.