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

The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

Oh, that peace may come.

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

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

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