If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.