I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.