As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Civility cost nothing.

Life is too short for a long story

How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.

It has all been most interesting.

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.

Forgive what you can't excuse.