Julia McNair Wright Quotes & Sayings

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt. — Julia McNair Wright

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

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. — Julia McNair Wright

Human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance. — Julia McNair Wright

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. — Julia McNair Wright

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! — Julia McNair Wright

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

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household. — Julia McNair Wright

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

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life. — Julia McNair Wright

Fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order. — Julia McNair Wright

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us. — Julia McNair Wright

There can be no real beauty without neatness and order. — Julia McNair Wright

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness. — Julia McNair Wright

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past. — Julia McNair Wright

Disorder is the slowest worker in the universe. — Julia McNair Wright

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

Simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light. — Julia McNair Wright

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large. — Julia McNair Wright

Home is the place where true politeness tells. — Julia McNair Wright

Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause. — Julia McNair Wright

It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning. — Julia McNair Wright

Our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession. — Julia McNair Wright

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years. — Julia McNair Wright

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

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

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. — Julia McNair Wright

True courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed. — Julia McNair Wright

As all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping. — Julia McNair Wright

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