You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

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.

Life is too short for a long story

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