Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.