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

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

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.

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

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.

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

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.