It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

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.

General notions are generally wrong.

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.

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

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