disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.
it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.
Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.
as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.
human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.
Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.
Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.
in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.
. . . there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.
simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.
little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.
Home is the place where true politeness tells.
The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.
Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.
Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!
What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.