#17. “Delicious sleep comes oftenest to the young and the day laborer.”
#18. “A cheerful disposition is the sunshine of the soul.”
#19. “The mental states have a more controlling influence over the bodily condition than most persons imagine.”
#20. “There is no better way, no safer way, no easier way, no surer way of saving children from debasing influences of the street, from corrupting associations, and from the acquisition of vicious and hurtful practices, than to make home attractive.”
#21. “The education of the young should properly commence with the grandmother, for it takes about two generations to eliminate the plebeian from the character and constitution”
#22. “Cold is the greatest enemy of old age.”
#23. “Ventilation is perfect in proportion as the air of an apartment is kept equal in purity to that of the external atmosphere. This is best done in private dwellings by having an open fire-place”
#24. “Nature is very much like a shiftless child, who, the more he is helped the more he looks for it. The more medicine a man takes the more he will have to take, whether it be anodyne, tonic, or alternative.”