48 Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea...

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

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