To Take A Dislike To A Young

Nothing Ever Fatigues Me, But Doing What I Do Not Like.

One Half Of The World Cannot Understand The Pleasures Of The Other.

Do Not Give Way To Useless Alarm; Though It Is Right To Be Prepared For The Worst, There Is No Occasion To Look On It As Certain.

When I Have A House Of My Own, I Shall Be Miserable If I Have Not An Excellent Library.

I Am Fond Of History And Am Very Well Contented To Take The False With The True. In The Principal Facts They Have Sources Of Intelligence In Former Histories And Records, Which May Be As Much Depended On, I Conclude, As Anything That Does Not Actually Pass Under Ones Own Observation; And As For The Little Embellishments You Speak Of, They Are Embellishments, And I Like Them As Such.