What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!
Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.
... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.
Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
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.