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.
James BoswellIf venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
James BoswellIt is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell