Janet Todd > Quotes

“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

“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

“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