Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.