“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself”

“By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. I used to write more methodically, but one does not dress for private company as for a public ball. Perhaps 'tis only negligence.”

“Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe i shall, in some shape or other, always exist.”

“Read much, but not many books.”

“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. ”

“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”