What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.