Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. – Samuel Pepys
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. – Samuel Pepys
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! – Samuel Pepys
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. – Samuel Pepys
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French b