All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.