I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.