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.

... 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.

I’m ALL about the Alternative.

We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

Wolves are social. They need their pack.

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

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