Eliza Cook Quotes

That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.
— Eliza Cook Eliza Cook’s Journal, Vol. IV

The possession of superior talent creates more wishes than it gratifies.
— Eliza Cook Diamond Dust

Better build schoolrooms for 'the children' than cells and gibbets for the 'grown-ups.'
— Eliza Cook

Birds!  birds!  Ye are beautiful things,
With your earth-treading feet and your cloud-cleaving wings!
— Eliza Cook The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook