I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Civility cost nothing.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.