Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?

- Mary Louisa Molesworth

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

- Mary Louisa Molesworth

Troubles never come singly.

- Mary Louisa Molesworth

Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.

- Mary Louisa Molesworth

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

- Mary Louisa Molesworth