An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

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.

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

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.