God made me and broke the mold.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.