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.

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

The best of a bad bargain.

It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins

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.

Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

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