... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews

real beauty is never vain.

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews

for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty m…

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews

if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews

I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little!

- Ellen Buckingham Mathews