I Would Rather Have Your Friendship Than

It Is Better To Arm And Strengthen Your Hero, Than To Disarm And Enfeeble Your Foe.

To Wheedle And Coax Is Safer Than To Command.

Life And Hope Must Cease Together.

The End Of Religion Is Not To Teach Us How To Die, But How To Live.

Our Children, Edward, Agnes, And Little Mary, Promise Well; Their Education, For The Time Being, Is Chiefly Committed To Me; And They Shall Want No Good Thing That A Mother's Care Can Give. Our Modest Income Is Amply Sufficient For Our Requirements; And By Practising The Economy We Learnt In Harder Times, And Never Attempting To Imitate Our Richer Neighbours, We Manage Not Only To Enjoy Comfort And Contentment Ourselves, But To Have Every Year Something To Lay By For Our Children, And Something To Give To Those Who Need It. And Now I Think I Have Said Sufficient.