Anna Seward

“The page of history teems with the foulest blot upon the name and nature of humanity - persecution for conscience sake.”

“Vain is the hope to restrain prices by laws, where monopoly is tolerated.”

“Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time.”

“Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.”

“Alas! that the torn heart can bleed, and live.”

“The present moment is a powerful deity.”

“It is for the happiness of mankind that men are sometimes cheated.”

“A long-established forest is a history of the district where it stands.”

“Genius soars, but taste parades.”

“Sorrow is the great idealizer.”

“Strive for excellence, not perfection.”

“The eye of genius has always a slight suffusion of madness.”

“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.”

“Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet, To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!”

“It is for the happiness of mankind that we are constituted as we are.”

“The cold and barren TASTE of the present day has excluded all the richer ornaments of writing.”

“The days of our youth are the days of our glory.”