Home is the place where true politeness tells.

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.

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

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

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

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