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

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.