Elizabeth Wordsworth

"If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could.But somehow, ’tis seldom or never The two hit it off as they should; The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever so rude to the good!"

"She was a gentlewoman, a scholar, and a saint, and after having been three times married, she took a vow of celibacy. What more could be expected of any woman?"