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.

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.