Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
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 MitfordI 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.
Mary Russell MitfordA novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
Mary Russell Mitford