Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.