The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

Finance is a slave's word.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.