We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Pray God, keep us simple.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.