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

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

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

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

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

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

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

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

Because of you, I can see and realize the beauty of life.

The circumstances of one's birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

i thank the universe for takingeverything it has takenand giving to meeverything it is giving-balance

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

I cried at my son's sports day, for God's sake. I'm a huge baby

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.