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.

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

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

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.

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

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

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