Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.