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.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.