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

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

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

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may smile, should recollect that there are moments which admit of being soothed only by trifles.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.