I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.
He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.
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.
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.