There's only one truth about war: people die.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.