All Quotes

To be like Christ is to be a Christian. ”

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. ”

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. ”

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ”

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. ”

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ”

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ”

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. ”

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. ”

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ”