One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.