Education is an asset no man can take away.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

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.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.