our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

... 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.

Peace is peace.

If you don’t choose what you want, others will give you their choices.

God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven

Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head.

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Kisses should not leave you satisfied.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.