In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.