Next To God, Thy Parents.

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.

Inquire Often, But Judge Rarely, And Thou Wilt Not Often Be Mistaken.

Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still.

Some Are So Very Studious Of Learning What Was Done By The Ancients That They Know Not How To Live With The Moderns.

Where Judgment Has Wit To Express It, There's The Best Orator.