Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

- Frances Osborne

I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperboli…

- Frances Osborne

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

- Frances Osborne

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

- Frances Osborne

Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during …

- Frances Osborne

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

- Frances Osborne

It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at…

- Frances Osborne

Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever afte…

- Frances Osborne

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, an…

- Frances Osborne