Anne Lister

"What a comfort is this journal. I tell myself to myself and throw the burden on my book and feel relieved."

- Anne Lister

"I owe a good deal to this journal. By unburdening my mind on paper I feel, as it were, in some degree to get rid of it; it seems made over to a friend that hears it patiently, keeps it faithfully, and by never forgetting anything, is always ready to compare the past & present and thus to cheer & edify the future."

- Anne Lister