We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.