Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.