You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

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

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

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.