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.

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.

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

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

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.