Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.