Home is the place where true politeness tells.

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

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

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.

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

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.

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.