I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
Mary Russell MitfordDoes it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.
Mary Russell MitfordThe power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.
Mary Russell MitfordTrees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
Mary Russell Mitford