Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.