When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

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

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

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.