"We must be born again. We must have new hearts". "God hath in this matter no other rival than this world. It is its friendship that is enmity to him"

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most—who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and str

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. — Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. (Richard Sibbes)

Isaac Ambrose

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft

Plotinus

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. — Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Riches are . . . long in getting—with much pains, hard in keeping—with much care, quick in losing—with more sorrow. (Thomas Fuller)