Mrs Norton is perhaps the most beautiful, but the Duchess, to my mind, is the more kissable.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

She's a very charming and delightful creature ... and has only one fault that I know of. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me.

Accidents will occur in the best of regulated families.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.