Among The Numerous Luxuries Of The Table...coffee

When Nature Gave Us Tears, She Gave Us Leave To Weep.

We Hear Of The Conversion Of Water Into Wine At The Marriage In Cana As Of A Miracle. But This Conversion Is, Through The Goodness Of God, Made Every Day Before Our Eyes. Behold The Rain Which Descends From Heaven Upon Our Vineyards, And Which Incorporates Itself With The Grapes, To Be Changed Into Wine; A Constant Proof That God Loves Us, And Loves To See Us Happy.

But Our Great Security Lies, I Think, In Our Growing Strength.

The Happy State Of Matrimony Is, Undoubtedly, The Surest And Most Lasting Foundation Of Comfort And Love . . . The Cause Of All Good Order In The World, And What Alone Preserves It From The Utmost Confusion.

My Refusing To Eat Flesh Occasioned An Inconveniency, And I Was Frequently Chid For My Singularity.