The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

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

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

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

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.