A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
Begin now what you will be hereafter.