"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

"Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations."

"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them."

"What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

"Changing husbands is only changing troubles."

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

"I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

"Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us."

"For a thinking creature of high intellect there can be no pleasure separate from emotion. If you deny men emotion you deny them pleasure."