A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
One can never outlive one's vanity.
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.