“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

“Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding; joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it. Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another- we are an injured body.”

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”

“One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving”

“One cannot have love without ownership”

“I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.”