I have made up my mind to like no novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, yours and my own. - Maria Edgeworth

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

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.