our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

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

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

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.

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