His whole mind may be in his business; but, if he would be happy, his whole heart must be in his home.

It is there that his genuine qualities most surely display themselves--there that he shows his truthfulness, his love, his sympathy, his consideration for others, his uprightness, his manliness--in a word, his character.

If affection be not the governing principle in a household, domestic life may be the most intolerable of despotisms.

Without justice, also, there can be neither love, confidence, nor respect, on which all true domestic rule is founded.
Erasmus speaks of Sir Thomas More's home as "a school and exercise of the Christian religion." "No wrangling, no angry word was heard in it; no one was idle; every one did his duty with alacrity, and not without a temperate cheerfulness." Sir Thomas won all hearts to obedience by his gentleness.

He was a man clothed in household goodness; and he ruled so gently and wisely, that his home was pervaded by an atmosphere of love and duty.