We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our know….

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds..

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

General notions are generally wrong..

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise..

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself..

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting..

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words..

Forgive what you can't excuse..

In short I will part with anything for you but you..

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet..

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

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always..

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading..

Life is too short for a long story.

Solitude begets whimsies..

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along..

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily sol….

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state..

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 m….

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me..