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

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

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.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.