“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man”

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired”

“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits”

“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish”

“I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses”