Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

He that takes a wife, takes care