The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in... - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."

"[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible."