The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.