In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.