Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

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

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.