How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

Whenever it is any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.