Solitude begets whimsies.

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 have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

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

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.