The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

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.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.