disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

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.

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

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

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

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.