The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; a…

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things wh…

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

... one should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, how…

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fon…

- Hester Lynch Piozzi