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.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

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

Men are vile inconstant toads.

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.