Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

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

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.