“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know”

“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple”

“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen”

“First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others”

“Health is my expected heaven”

“Pleasure disappoints, possibility never”