In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.