It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!