A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Solitude begets whimsies.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

One can never outlive one's vanity.