Frequent Discontent Must Proceed From Frequent Hardships.

I Fancy Mankind May Come, In Time, To Write All Aphoristically, Except In Narrative; Grow Weary Of Preparation, And Connection, And Illustration, And All Those Arts By Which A Big Book Is Made.

To Excite Opposition And Inflame Malevolence Is The Unhappy Privilege Of Courage Made Arrogant By Consciousness Of Strength.

This Mournful Truth Is Everywhere Confessed, Slow Rises Worth By Poverty Depressed.

When A Man Is Tried Of London, He Is Tired Of Life.

No Man Was More Foolish When He Had Not A Pen In His Hand, Or More Wise When He Had