ABSTRACT
He advised me to keep a journal … fair and undisguised. He said it would be a very good exercise … I told Mr Johnson that I put down all sorts of little incidents in it. ‘Sir’, said he, ‘there is nothing so little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.’ (Boswell, London Journal)
