Anna Letitia Barbauld Giving Quotations

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

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

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.