We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

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!

Oh, that peace may come.

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.