I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

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.

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.

Good Morning! Wake up and smile like the morning sun.

Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his...he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so.

People ask, how can a person abuse a child? I ask, how can so many 'good' people not do anything about it?

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.