“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

“A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".”

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”