“Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love”

“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay”

“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.”

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity”

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object”

“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved”