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

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?

It has all been most interesting.