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

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.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.