I am excessively diverted.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I can always live by my pen.