Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
Fanny BurneyMoney is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Fanny BurneyI have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it.... There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare, the sentiments uncommon, the vicar is contented, humble, pious, virtuous--but upon the whole the book has not at all satisfied my expectations.
Fanny Burney