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

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.

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

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.

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.