In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Let us see what love can do.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.