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.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

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

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.