the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

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

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

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.

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!