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.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

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.

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

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

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.

A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.