One Can Never Outlive One's Vanity.

Whatever Is Clearly Expressed Is Well Wrote.

Making Verses Is Almost As Common As Taking Snuff, And God Can Tell What Miserable Stuff People Carry About In Their Pockets, And Offer To All Their Acquaintances, And You Know One Cannot Refuse Reading And Taking A Pinch.

People Are Never So Near Playing The Fool As When They Think Themselves Wise.

As Marriage Produces Children, So Children Produce Care And Disputes; And Wrangling.

The Use Of Knowledge In Our Sex (beside The Amusement Of Solitude) Is To Moderate The Passions And Learn To Be Contented With A Small Expense, Which Are The Certain Effects Of A Studious Life And, It May Be, Preferable Even To That Fame Which Men Have Engrossed To Themselves And Will Not Suffer Us To Share.