Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

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.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.