There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men.