Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.