Please your eye and plague your heart.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

The slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle.

To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.