Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

- Amelia B. Edwards

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxi…

- Amelia B. Edwards

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

- Amelia B. Edwards

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

- Amelia B. Edwards

Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the gard…

- Amelia B. Edwards

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's…

- Amelia B. Edwards

It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more re…

- Amelia B. Edwards

Every reformation ruins somebody.

- Amelia B. Edwards

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

- Amelia B. Edwards