He condemned all pleasures; damnable all of them, he said, even hunting and music.

You were to speak of nothing but the Word of God only; all other conversation was forbidden.

It was always he that carried on the improving talk at table; where he did the office of reader, as if it had been a refectory of monks.

The King treated us to a sermon every afternoon; his valet-de-chambre gave out a psalm, which we all sang; you had to listen to this sermon with as much devout attention as if it had been an apostle's.

My Brother and I had all the mind in the world to laugh; we tried hard to keep from laughing; but often we burst out.