human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

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.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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.