Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself

Love is friendship set on fire

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not

Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends

Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites