Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

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

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.