Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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.