I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.