[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.