That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!