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

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.