Julia McNair Wright Quotes

... 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.

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

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.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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.

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

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.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

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

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

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

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.