True Freedom Is To Have Power Over

Other Passions Have Objects To Flatter Them, And Seem To Content And Satisfy Them For A While; There Is Power In Ambition, Pleasure In Luxury, And Pelf In Covetousness; But Envy Can Gain Nothing But Vexation.

I Seek In The Reading Of Books, Only To Please Myself, By An Honest Diversion.

My Opinion Is That We Must Lend Ourselves To Others And Give Ourselves Only To Ourselves. If My Will Happened To Be Prone To Mortgage And Attach Itself, I Would Not Last: I Am Too Tender, Both By Nature And By Practice.

The Most Certain Sign Of Wisdom Is Cheerfulness.

As Soon As Women Become Ours We Are No Longer Theirs.