Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.