63 Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.