If A Man Who Is Born To

Friendship, "the Wine Of Life," Should, Like A Well-stocked Cellar, Be Continually Renewed.

It Is Not Every Man Who Can Be Exquisitely Miserable, Any More Than Exquisitely Happy.

For My Own Part I Think No Innocent Species Of Wit Or Pleasantry Should Be Suppressed: And That A Good Pun May Be Admitted Among The Smaller Excellencies Of Lively Conversation.

Boswell, When He Speaks Of His Life Of Johnson, Calls It My Magnum Opus, But It May More Properly Be Called His Opera, For It Is Truly A Composition Founded On A True Story, In Which There Is A Hero With A Number Of Subordinate Characters, And An Alternate Succession Of Recitative And Airs Of Various Tone And Effect, All However In Delightful Animation.

That Favorite Subject, Myself.