I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

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.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

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

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

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.