little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.
Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.
... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.
Home is the place where true politeness tells.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
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.