"After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even h…"

"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

"The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putt…"

"Save a penny every year and you shall die a millionaire."

"The sleeping fox catches no poultry."