Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

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.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

It has all been most interesting.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.