There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

True friendship is never serene.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!