Date: 1782

"But a smooth and stedfast mind, / Gentle thought and calm desires, / Hearts in equal love combin'd, / Kindle never-dying fires; / Where these are not I despise / Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1783

"If the human mind be a rasa tabula,--you to whom it is entrusted, should be cautious what is written upon it."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1783

"I weave nets for insects; and if I suit my toil, for my game am I to be derided?"

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1783

"Weeds in abundance spring up in a piece of ground which is neglected; -- so do naughty dispositions in an uncultivated mind."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1784

"'Tis in Clarinda's charming mind, / The sweet attraction lies; / There all that fire and life we find, / That sparkles in her eyes."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1784

"Till with care the garden of the mind."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1784

"As a piece of ground which is negligently cultivated, produces abundance of noxious weeds, so in the soul of an indolent man over-run with numberless vicious passions."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1785

"It is true, that I have the dear little babes of some particular friends more immediately in view; but my heart glows at the idea of smoothing the thorny paths of a thousand little innocents—of sparing the tears of helpless infants."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1785

"Authority may place a child in the path of learning; but pleasure only can entice him on; let us therefor endeavour to strew the entrance with flowers, which may induce him to proceed with alacrity."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)