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.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

It has all been most interesting.