Ellen Buckingham Mathews Quotes & Sayings

It is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away. — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same. — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Real beauty is never vain. — 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

Without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity? — 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

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

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 millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes ... — Ellen Buckingham Mathews