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

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.

The best of a bad bargain.

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.

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

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

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