Anna Letitia Barbauld

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld