Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

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

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.