Home is the place where true politeness tells.

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

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.