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

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

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

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

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