Words of wisdom

Boswell writes in Life on April 28, 1778 the following: "A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives."

He also wrote in the Rambler 6; "he, who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing, but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove."