The best of a bad bargain.

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

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

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

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.

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

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