–she may become impatient, and bring about a crisis before you are prepared for it.

nine-tenths of the so-called big men who fill public offices, are traitors to conscience.  To be a successful politician, conscience must be stifled.  A man must pretend to be any and everything that his constituents are.  With him policy is everything and conscience nothing.

and as about everything else you eat contains about the same elements as bread made of finely bolted flour, eat what is called brown bread, or bread made of the whole wheat, as it contains elements not found in other articles of food–elements that your system must have to thrive.

It originates from the same source as other styles of mourning–from a diseased and abnormal state of the mind.

it makes you melancholy.   You should do everything possible to forget them if you cannot think of them cheerfully.

–it unfits you for everything else, and shrivels every tender flower in the human heart–it is the canker worm that eats up every blossom in the garden of manhood.

and swallow everything strangers tell you–it is liable to produce nausea.