Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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.

Truth is the basis of all healing.

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

I think it's incredibly cute when a guy can't dance and doesn't care about how crazy he looks.

I grew up in the art world.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.