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.

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

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

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

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.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

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.