There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

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.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

Civility cost nothing.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.