the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

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.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

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

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.