If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.

Julia McNair Wright

Categorized in : Ideas People Effort

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

Julia McNair Wright

real-beauty real order

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

Julia McNair Wright

family evil home

the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.

Julia McNair Wright

self appreciation character

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

Julia McNair Wright

good-man moments years

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

Julia McNair Wright

echoes mind past

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

Julia McNair Wright

workers disorder order

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

Julia McNair Wright

politeness home

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

Julia McNair Wright

courtesy real kindness

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

Julia McNair Wright

simplicity light beautiful

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

Julia McNair Wright

brain sleep needs

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

Julia McNair Wright

sunshine wine sun

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.

Julia McNair Wright

time morning night

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

Julia McNair Wright

wealth hours doe

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

Julia McNair Wright

small-changes life-changing littles

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

Julia McNair Wright

honesty ignorance doe

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

Julia McNair Wright

anchors home order

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

Julia McNair Wright

snow beauty ideas

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

Julia McNair Wright

beginnings-and-endings easier ends

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.

Julia McNair Wright

ornaments lips next

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.

Julia McNair Wright

individual community states