Quotes from Anna Jameson

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

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.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.