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.
fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.
human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.
Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.