"The world is the book of women; everything they know, they have learned from it."

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

"My greatest fault has been to be too easily led, and my greatest virtue to have always recognized and avoided the errors into which I was led."

"The child who has learned only what is taught him by others, will never be truly learned."

"Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."