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.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

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

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

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.

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.