He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.