For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Only the active have the true relish of life.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.