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

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

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

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

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.

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