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.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?