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

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

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.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.