Anna Jameson

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

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”