Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!
Mary Russell MitfordA novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
Mary Russell MitfordThat bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.
Mary Russell Mitford