Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.