It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .
Joanna BaillieThis will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.
Joanna BaillieI wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna BaillieTo struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! 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 bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie