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.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

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

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

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.