it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.
true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.
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.