Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

General notions are generally wrong.