Brown's diary is filled with pithy observations and sayings. When he was under the weather, it usually was on Sunday, preventing him from attending church with the family. It appeared he wrestled with a good life full of material things. He often wrote about what makes a good man. How truly my good mother practiced that.
Men are happy according to what they have.
Things are for men, not men for things. Brown sometimes worked long hours, often arriving at his office before breakfast and also working on Saturdays. By the last page of the diary, Brown had made up his mind about when the 20th century started.