In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.