Mary Russell Mitford - Our Village (1824)

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His speech flows not from vanity or lust of praise, but from sheer necessity; — the reservoir is full, and runs over.

Mary Russell Mitford
They know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Mary Russell Mitford
The gentlewoman is touchy. This affliction has given a color to her whole life. Her biography has a certain martial dignity, like the history of a nation; she dates from battle to battle, and passes her days in an interminable civil war.

Mary Russell Mitford
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

Mary Russell Mitford
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Mary Russell Mitford
The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

Mary Russell Mitford
Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Mary Russell Mitford
Her father doted upon her and thought her the most accomplished young woman of the age; for certain, she could play a little, and sing a little, and paint a little, and talk a little very bad French, and dance and dress a great deal.

Mary Russell Mitford
There was no getting away from her hearty hospitality, no escaping her prodigality of presents. It was dangerous to praise or even to approve of any thing belonging to herself in her hearing; if it had been the carpet under her feet or the shawl on her shoulders, either would instantly have been stripped off to offer.

Mary Russell Mitford
The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

Mary Russell Mitford