“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”

“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”

“A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.”

“If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.”

“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”

“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”

“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.”

“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.”

“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.”

“A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.”

“Love is friendship set on fire.”

“Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.”