Maria Edgeworth

Why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

How success changes the opinion of men!

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me and I was always sorry to get well.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.