I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

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.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

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

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

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.