Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.