Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!
true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.
The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.