Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.
Anna Brownell JamesonThe true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
Anna Brownell JamesonA man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Brownell JamesonAs the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.
Anna Brownell Jameson