Maria Edgeworth

“ As it must be more scientific than the other Early Lessons, it is more difficult to me, who have so little knowledge on those subjects, and am obliged to go so warily, lest I should teach error, or pretend to teach what I do not know. ”

“ Never read The Lollards if it falls in your way, unless you like to see John Huss burned over again. What pleasure have people in such horrid subjects?
You ask me what I am doing besides Early Lessons, and if I have made any progress in "Travellers." [2] Do you think, my dearest aunt, that I can write Early Lessons with my left hand and "Travellers" with my right? ”

“ The post and steam vessels bring the most distant parts of the world now so much within our reach that friends cannot be much more separated by being at "Nova Zembla, or the LORD knows where," than by being in different counties of the same kingdom. ”