Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise

To Be A Man's Own Fool Is Bad Enough, But The Vain Man Is Everybody's.

Let Us Then Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us.

But Make Not More Business Necessary Than Is So; And Rather Lessen Than Augment Work For Thyself.

Where Thou Art Obliged To Speak, Be Sure Speak The Truth: For Equivocation Is Half Way To Lying, As Lying, The Whole Way To Hell.

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.