A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.