Quotes from Anna Letitia Barbauld

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

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

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

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

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

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

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!