“People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.”

“When one has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.”

“A woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript.”

“To love her was a liberal education.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.”