Half a loaf is better than no bread.
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.
The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
Home is the place where true politeness tells.
Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.
... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.