I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.