I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do. - Samuel Richardson

Have I nothing new, nothing diverting, in my whimsical way, thou askest in one of thy letters to entertain thee with? and thou tellest me that, when I have least to narrate, to speak in the scottish phrase, I am most diverting, a pretty compliment either to thyself , or to me, to both indeed! a sign that thou hast as frothy a heart as I a head !

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

They say the Church-yard is crouded with more of the living, than of the dead, and there is hardly room for a spade. What an image, on such a day!