Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

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

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.

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