Wretched un-idea'd girls.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.