Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

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

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