Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

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

the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.

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

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

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.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.