Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

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

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

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

Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

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

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