There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

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.

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

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.