Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.
simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.
it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.
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.