Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.