Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

- Maria Edgeworth

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

- Maria Edgeworth

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

- Maria Edgeworth

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

- Maria Edgeworth

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

- Maria Edgeworth

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

- Maria Edgeworth

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

- Maria Edgeworth

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

- Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

- Maria Edgeworth