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

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

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

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

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.