Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assur...
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
Haste is of the Devil.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
