A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.