Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
…men never forgive like women.
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.