"Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee."

"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent."

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

"Only the educated are free."

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

"How do we know that in clinging to this life we are not merely clinging to an illusion and delaying our entry into the real world?"

"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."