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

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

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.

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

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

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

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