The 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 MitfordWell, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.
Mary Russell MitfordNo fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.
Mary Russell Mitford