Anna Brownell Jameson

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise: it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate it in silence.

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can …

Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

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.

Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.