“ Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ”

“ How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. ”

“ Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. ”

“ I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand. ”

“ A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ”

“ Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

“ Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ”

“ I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. ”

“ One today is worth two tomorrows. ”

“ All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. ”