Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).

You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.[Francesca] 'We did.'V: 'And he trusts you?'F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.

The word of God is more powerful when put into action than when only spoken.

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.