Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

- Joanna Baillie

If my heart were not light, I would die.

- Joanna Baillie

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

- Joanna Baillie

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

- Joanna Baillie

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

- Joanna Baillie

To 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 …

- Joanna Baillie

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

- Joanna Baillie

This 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 Baillie

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

- Joanna Baillie