He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

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

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

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.

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.