"I have just finished the first volume of 'Mansfield Park,' and am very much pleased with it. I think it is a very clever book."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"I feel like a negligent mother for my poor Mansfield Park, so little loved by all."

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

"I am not at all in a humour for writing, I am tired of it."