Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

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.

Oh, that peace may come.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.