To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

General notions are generally wrong.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.