If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

- Anna Seward

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

- Anna Seward

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

- Anna Seward

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

- Anna Seward

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed o…

- Anna Seward

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

- Anna Seward