One can never outlive one's vanity.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.