The discovery of one star is the promise of another. — Robert Aris Willmott Astronomy Copy Share Image
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott Adventure Copy Share Image
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. — Robert Aris Willmott Books Copy Share Image
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. — Robert Aris Willmott Affliction Copy Share Image
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are… — Robert Aris Willmott Church Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Advice Copy Share Image
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke… — Robert Aris Willmott Astronomy Copy Share Image
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Age Copy Share Image
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened… — Robert Aris Willmott Beauty Copy Share Image
What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the… — Robert Aris Willmott Beautiful Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Children Copy Share Image
How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott Advantage Copy Share Image
Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom… — Robert Aris Willmott Anatomy Copy Share Image
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges,… — Robert Aris Willmott Attention Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Autumn Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a… — Robert Aris Willmott Beauty Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Analysis Copy Share Image
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
