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

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

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

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.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

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.