There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.