A diary means yes indeed.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.