human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

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.

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.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

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

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