It Is Not Every Man Who Can

I Am Sensible That My Keenness Of Temper, And A Vanity To Be Distinguished For The Day, Make Me Too Often Splash In Life.... I Amresolved To Restrain Myself And Attend More To Decorum.

Melancholy Cannot Be Clearly Proved To Others, So It Is Better To Be Silent About It.

My Definition Of Man Is, A Cooking Animal. The Beasts Have Memory, Judgement, And All The Faculties And Passions Of Our Mind, In A Certain Degree; But No Beast Is A Cook....man Alone Can Dress A Good Dish; And Every Man Whatever Is More Or Less A Cook, In Seasoning What He Himself Eats.

We Must Take Our Friends As They Are.

I Went To My Father's At Night. He Spoke Of Poor John [boswell's Brother] With Disgust. I Was Shocked And Said, "he's Your Son, And God Made Him." He Answered Very Harshly, "if My Sons Are Idiots, Can I Help It?