Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.