If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

I look one move ahead... the best!

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.