... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

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

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.

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

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.