Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.