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.

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

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

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.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

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

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.