His Most Frequent Ailment Was

It Is More From Carelessness About Truth Than From Intentionally Lying That There Is So Much Falsehood In The World.

Now ... That You Are Going To Marry, Do Not Expect More From Life, Than Life Will Afford.

Advice Is Seldom Welcome. Those Who Need It Most, Like It Least.

To Write Is, Indeed, No Unpleasing Employment, When One Sentiment Readily Produces Another, And Both Ideas And Expressions Present Themselves At The First Summons; But Such Happiness, The Greatest Genius Does Not Always Obtain; And Common Writers Know It Only To Such A Degree, As To Credit Its Possibility. Composition Is, For The Most Part, An Effort Of Slow Diligence And Steady Perseverance, To Which The Mind Is Dragged By Necessity Or Resolution, And From Which The Attention Is Every Moment Starting To More Delightful Amusements.

The End Of Writing Is To Instruct; The End Of Poetry Is To Instruct By Pleasing.