Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

Solitude begets whimsies.