Jane Austen's Sanditon Quotes

“We are sent into this world to be as extensively useful as possible, and, where some degree of strength of mind is given, it is not a feeble body which will excuse us --- or incline us to excuse ourselves. --- The world is pretty much divided between the weak of mind and the strong --- between those who can act and those who cannot --- and it is the bounden duty of the capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them. --- My sister's complaints and mine are happily not often of a nature to threaten existence immediately --- and as long as we can exert ourselves to be of use to others, I am convinced that the body is the better for the refreshment the mind receives in doing its duty. --- While I have been travelling , with this object in view, I have been perfectly well.”
― Janet Todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd

“Your sisters know what they are about, I dare say, but their measures seem to touch on extremes. I feel that, in any illness, I should be so anxious for professional advice, so very little venturesome for myself, or anybody I loved! But, then, we have been so healthy a family that I can be no judge of what the of self-doctoring may do.”
― Janet Todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd

“That is --- we think differently, we now and then see things differently...--- Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.---”
― Janet Todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd

“Sanditon was a second wife and four children to him --
hardly less dear --- and certainly more engrossing.--- He could talk of it for ever. --- It had indeed the highest claims; --- not only those of birth place, property, and home, --- it was mine, his lottery, his speculation and his hobby horse; his occupation, his hope and his futurity.---
Sanditon, Jane Austen”
― janet todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd