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

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

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

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

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

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

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.