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

... 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.

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.

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

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.