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!

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

The best of a bad bargain.

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 out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.