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

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!

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

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

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