I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
Mary Russell MitfordThe 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.
Mary Russell MitfordShe was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.
Mary Russell Mitford