We are fortunate to have inherited an institution (the House of Lords) which we certainly should never have had the intelligence t...o create. We might have been landed with something like the American Senate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reig...n; at least it is contre gré that they drive themselves to the work which it entails.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We placed the wreaths upon the splended granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much... was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us--loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe--yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one ...is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children--for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him--and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for whi...ch it was worthy!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We women are not made for governing and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations; but there are times whi...ch force one to take interest in them mal gré bon gré, and I do, of course, intensely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »