in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

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

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

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.

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

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.

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