A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.