Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.