A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.