"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own."
"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."