I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.