Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
Anna Brownell JamesonA bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
Anna Brownell JamesonOut 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 JamesonIn 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 Brownell Jameson