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.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.