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

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.

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

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

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