At home all day and took physic. Paid Marchant 3d for mending my coat. John Fuller Esq of Rose Hill in this county was buried at Waldron. Read part of the 4th volume P. Pickle. Rec’d of Mrs Day 1.1.2½ in full this day.
Think the following [apophthegms] in the aforementioned volume worthy of notice (to wit): “The shortest follies are the best”; “Better to retrench upon conviction then compulsion”; “Self-accusation very often dissolves the closest friendship”; “A man conscious of his own indiscretion is implacably offended at the rectitude of his companion’s conduct, which he considers as an insult upon his failings never to be forgiven, even though he has not tasted bitterness of reproof, which no sinner can commodiously digest”; “ General profession is a necessary armor worn by all state ministers in their own defense against the importunity of those whom they will not befriend and would not disoblige”; “In distress it is high time to weigh solid pudding against empty praise.”