To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another. Anna Brownell Jameson More Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson More Quotes From Anna Brownell Jameson Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals. Anna Brownell Jameson sensuality moral greed We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. Anna Brownell Jameson understanding impossible sometimes Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. Anna Brownell Jameson childhood men children As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. Anna Brownell Jameson moss change heart The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. Anna Brownell Jameson cherish purpose education A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. Anna Brownell Jameson prey delight mind Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars. Anna Brownell Jameson doe love-is talking A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means. Anna Brownell Jameson hate tree mean Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Anna Brownell Jameson modesty vanity sometimes Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Brownell Jameson poetry may religion I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength. Anna Brownell Jameson temptation love-is sex A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. Anna Brownell Jameson unconscious conscious taste A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more. Anna Brownell Jameson degrees excellence art I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life. Anna Brownell Jameson gowns heart hands Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil. Anna Brownell Jameson evil sight art Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'! Anna Brownell Jameson few-words women might You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible. Anna Brownell Jameson believe lying facts How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory! Anna Brownell Jameson memorial regret art Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man. Anna Brownell Jameson rights men hands He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. Anna Brownell Jameson mind doors art
