No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

“None strive to know their proper meritBut strain for wisdom, beauty, spiritAnd …”

“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at…”

“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”

“Civility costs nothing and buys everything”