Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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.

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

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.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.