A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.