Quotes from Hester Lynch Piozzi

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

... one should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.