"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."

"They talk like angels but they live like men."

"Virginity can be lost by a thought."

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."

"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."

"Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life."

"Why do you not practice what you preach."

"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts."

"Haste is of the Devil."

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law."

"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."

"Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed."

"The scars of others should teach us caution."

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night."

"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."