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

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.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

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

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.

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.