No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

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

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.