A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.