80 Quotes by Anna 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.

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.

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.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

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

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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