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.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

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

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

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.