"Dear Reader, you may take it from me, that however hard you try — or don't try; whatever you do — or don't do; for be…"

"The chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies. Or rather, how to try to tell them; for, of course, I did it…"

"Ladies were ladies in those days; they did not do things themselves."

"You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopaedia,…"

"I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. Aunt Etty was most emphatically such a person."

"In my grandparents' house it was a distinction and a mournful pleasure to be ill. This was partly because my grandfat…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"