Quotes from Charlotte Dacre

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

She turned of an ashy paleness as cold hatred and desire for revenge took possession of her vindictive soul.

for it is the pure, *intellectual* soul alone, that can receive delight from solitude.