“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property”

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow”

“Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so”

“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?”

“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”

“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together”