While her husband was still lying in prison for debt, the
Archbishop of York asked Susannah Wesley:
“Tell me, Mrs. Wesley, whether you were ever really in want of
bread?”
“My lord,” she answered, “strictly speaking, I never did want
bread. But then I had so much care to get it before it was
eaten, and to pay for it after, as has often made it very
unpleasant to me; and I think to have bread under such terms is
the next degree of wretchedness to having none at all.”--W.
H. FITCHETT, “Wesley and His Century.”
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