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.

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.

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

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

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.

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.