simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.
Home is the place where true politeness tells.
it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
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.