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