Things that don't exist do exist. They're just really fast.
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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.
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.
I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.