Perseverance in marriage
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” George Eliot

Marital perseverance
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent
Little Drummer Boy
Controlling anger
“Angry people are not always wise.” Jane Austen

Anger management
Wisdom
“Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.” (from a letter to her niece, 1814) Jane Austen
