Quotes from Sara Coleridge

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.