So we are overrun by clergymen without livings; lawyers without briefs; physicians without patients; authors without readers; clerks soliciting employment, who might have thriven, and been above the world, as bakers, watchmakers, or innkeepers.

The next time my father speaks to me about P--, I will offer to subscribe twenty guineas towards making a pastry-cook of him.

He had a sweet tooth when he was a child.
So you are reading Burnet! Did you begin from the beginning?
What do you think of the old fellow?
He was always a great favourite of mine; honest, though careless; a strong party man on the right side, yet with much kind feeling towards his opponents, and even towards his personal enemies.

He is to me a most entertaining writer; far superior to Clarendon in the art of amusing, though of course far Clarendon's inferior in discernment, and in dignity and correctness of style.

Do you know, by the bye, Clarendon's life of himself?
I like it, the part after the Restoration at least, better than his great History.
I am very quiet; rise at seven or half-past; read Spanish till ten; breakfast; walk to my office; stay there till four; take a long walk, dine towards seven; and am in bed before eleven.