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

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

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.

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.

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

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.