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

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

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

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

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.

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

I know not how to abstain from reading.