My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

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

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.Horace, Roman PoetOde I-6, 23 BCE

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.

I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.