Oh, that peace may come.

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

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.

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.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

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

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