Famous quotes containing the words ellen and/or browning:
“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“First time he kissed me, he but only kiss’d
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)