 A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. |
| What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading! |
| It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. |
| We must take our friends as they are. |
| A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. |
| I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. |
| For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. |
| I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson. |
| A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. |
| I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. |
| There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. |
| I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. |
| If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. |
| He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. |
