Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Tenderness is a virtue.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.