“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

“Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.”

“Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.”