Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

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.

You can build your strength, If you read enough books!

If you begin reading your Bible daily, you will develop a positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

Celebrity is as celebrity does.

Most people believe they know what it is that would make them happy, and what it is that they should get rid of in order to be happy. Unfortunately, few actually do.

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

Surviving, that's my plan.