“If my sister were near me now, I should lay my head down upon her shoulder and cry like a tired child.”

A strikingly unguarded expression of weariness and longing for comfort · Letter fragment, familiar correspondence

• Childhood
• Friendship
• Love

“It is, in my opinion, full of beauty, and of truth, developing itself clearly and sorrowfully, like almost all truth, I believe, through the colouring mists of imagination.”

Linking artistic imagination with the gradual revelation of difficult truths · Letter fragment, familiar correspondence

• Art
• Beauty
• Truth

“Surely there is enough in the path which we all tread together, to make us feel that we are the children of one Father, and to prevent our allowing differences of opinion to divide our hearts.”

Appealing to shared humanity and faith above differences of belief · Letter to Joanna Baillie, Rhyllon

• Faith
• Friendship
• Truth