true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

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

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

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.