disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

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

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.

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.

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.

the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.