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

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

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

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

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

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 know not how to abstain from reading.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

The best of a bad bargain.

Grace calls us back to nonduality

The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

You'll see it when you believe it.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory