To enforce and illustrate my meaning, I have sent you a journal of three days’ employment, found among the papers of a late intimate acquaintance.

Of those who once filled the civilized world with their renown, nothing is now left but their names

He that records transactions in which himself was engaged has an opportunity of knowing innumerable particulars which escape spectators.

Tell me what I must do next; I have health, I have money, and I hope that I have understanding; yet, with all these, I have never been able to pass a single day which I did not wish at an end before sun-set.