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.
Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.
simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!