He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
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.
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.
However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.