"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems som…"

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of…"

"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal…"

"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."

"Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and…"

"Everybody likes to go their own way— to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered …"

"I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profes…"

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."