Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

- Elizabeth Aston

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

- Elizabeth Aston

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth…

- Elizabeth Aston

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next…

- Elizabeth Aston

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

- Elizabeth Aston

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

- Elizabeth Aston

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but…

- Elizabeth Aston

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

- Elizabeth Aston

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

- Elizabeth Aston