What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.