What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

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

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

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