“I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.”
“There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”
“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.”
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.”