The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
Lately we have had many losses.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.