I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.