Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld

“The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous”

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

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

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

“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!”

“We can only love what we know”

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

“The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”

“You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .”

“Forgotten rimes, and college themes,/ Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;/ A mass of heterogeneous matter./ A chaos dark, nor land nor water.”

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