Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.