Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.