“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”

“Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”

“To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly”

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”

“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.”

“Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.”