"A good honest and painfull sermon."

"Methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain."

"Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever aga…"

"Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred…"

"I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he look…"

"But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks …"

"Pretty witty Nell."

"This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, a…"

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody."

"To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young peop…"