Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

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.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

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

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.