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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.