Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
Maria EdgeworthThe bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Maria EdgeworthI find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
Maria Edgeworth