Quotes from Julia McNair Wright

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

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.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

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

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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.

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.

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