Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.
The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
