But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.