Annette

“Despair is a high point of atheism, it takes away God and Christ both at once. Judas, in betraying our Saviour, was an occasion of his death as man, but in despairing he did what lay in him to take away his life as God.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Soul's Conflict and Victory Over Itself by Faith

“Among siblings, deep affection and aggravation generally go hand in hand.”
― Fiona Stafford, Jane Austen: A Brief Life

“It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“If the poet ... is the inventor, the creator, of something new ... that without him would never have existed, then it is right and proper that he should be looked up to with due respect and awe as a chosen one, divinely gifted and inspired; if, on the other hand, he is the discoverer of something that is there for anyone to see ... he is to be envied but in no way excessively admired.”
― Friedrich Spielhagen