Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
Mary Russell MitfordShe was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.
Mary Russell MitfordBuonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.
Mary Russell Mitford