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.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

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.

Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.

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.

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

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.