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.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

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

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

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

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

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