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.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

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.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.