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“Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.”

“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.”

“it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.”

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

“Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.”

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

“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.”

“The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.”

“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.”

“... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.”

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

“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.”