Life is too short for a long story
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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.
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.