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

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

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

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.

Oh, that peace may come.

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.