Writing A Book I Have

I, Who Have No Sisters Or Brothers, Look With Some Degree Of Innocent Envy On Those Who May Be Said To Be Born To Friends.

The Connection Between Authors, Printers, And Booksellers Must Be Kept Up.

I Fancy Mankind May Come, In Time, To Write All Aphoristically.

Friendship, "the Wine Of Life," Should, Like A Well-stocked Cellar, Be Continually Renewed; And It Is Consolatory To Think, That Although We Can Seldom Add What Will Equal The Generous First Growths Of Our Youth, Yet Friendship Becomes Insensibly Old In Much Less Time Than Is Commonly Imagined, And Not Many Years Are Required To Make It Mellow And Pleasant.

When A Man Is Familiar With Many People He Must Expect Many Disagreeable Familiarizations.