Quotes from Joanna Baillie

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.