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.

I drink no more than a sponge.

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.