Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel RichardsonFor the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel RichardsonThe longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.
Samuel Richardson