The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attenda….

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks..

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can..

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being li….

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy..

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voi….

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that….

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!.

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pur….

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice whi….

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an o….

There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It m….

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps i….

Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great pec….

Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am..

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their pa….

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do)….

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….

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness..

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

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice..