There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.