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

The best of a bad bargain.

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

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.

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

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

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.