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.

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

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

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

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.

After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

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