Eat strong meat, drop pastries, stop reading sickly novelettes, pray at both ends of the day and in the middle, look a man in the eye when you talk to him, and if you want to be a giant keep your head out of the lap of indulgences that would put a pair of shears through your locks.
If you cannot get the right kind of business partner, marry a good, honest wife.

Fine cheeks and handsome curls are very well, but let them be mere incidentals.

Let our young men select practical women; there are a few of them left.

With such a one you can get on with almost all heavy loads of life.

You will be Pull, and she Push; and if you do not get the house built and the fortune established, send me word, and I will tear this article up in such small pieces that no one will ever be able to find it.
Life is earnest work, and cannot be done with the tips of the fingers.