I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.