A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.