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.

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

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

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

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.