When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

• Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
• To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
• I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
• If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
• Misery is the company of lawsuits.
• Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
• To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
• When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
• Nature abhors a vacuum.
• I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.