"We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight."

"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."

"The insupportable labour of doing nothing."

"When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him."

"The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men."

"A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband."

"I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine."

"I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office."

"It was very prettily said, that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom heaven is pleased to bestow it."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her is a liberal education."