Julia McNair Wright Quotes
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
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.
as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.
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.
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.
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.
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.
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.
The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.
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.
in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.
