80 Quotes by Anna Jameson

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.

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

Modesty and chastity are twins

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

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