I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

It has all been most interesting.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

It's all been very interesting.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.