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

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

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.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

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.