Anna Brownell Jameson quotes

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself. (Anna Brownell Jameson)
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson