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.

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

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

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

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.

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