Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

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.

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.

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

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.