True Knowledge Consists In Knowing Things, Not

Muse, Time Has Taught Me That All Metaphysical Systems, Even Historical Facts Given As Truths, Are Hardly That, So I Amuse Myself With More Agreeable Lies; I No Longer Read Anything But Novels.

My Dear Smollett ... Disgraces His Talent By Writing Those Stupid Romances Called History.

Be Plain In Dress, And Sober In Your Diet; In Short, My Deary, Kiss Me, And Be Quiet.

My Health Is So Often Impaired That I Begin To Be As Weary Of It As Mending Old Lace; When It Is Patched In One Place, It Breaks Out In Another.

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