The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

There is no running away from a great grief.