Maria Edgeworth

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.