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

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.