Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame. – James Edward Austen-Leigh, about Jane Austen
Whatever your lifes work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron