"Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brain" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

Source: Bishop Blougram's Apology (1855)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote