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Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

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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.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

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