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.

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

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

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.

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

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