1. “When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.”
2. “The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepare for doing without it, to exclusion of even hope.”
3. “Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”
4. “Never does one feel oneself as utterly as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.”
5. “The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.”
6. “A positive engagement to marry a certain person at certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth”
7. “The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.”
8. “I rely on promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.”
9. “The glittering baits of titles and honours are only children and fools.”
10. “Young children re such nasty little beasts!”
