Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much time to think of what we didn't have.

The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.