We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. — Robert Aris Willmott Affliction 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
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
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Art 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
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
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 discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have… — Robert Aris Willmott Bad company Copy Share Image
Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of… — Robert Aris Willmott Book Copy Share Image
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand… — Robert Aris Willmott Anatomy Copy Share Image
It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in… — Robert Aris Willmott Angel Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Beauty Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Bears Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Altars Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Age 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
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Accidents Copy Share Image
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of… — Robert Aris Willmott Church Copy Share Image
Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
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 discovery of one star is the promise of another. — Robert Aris Willmott Astronomy Copy Share Image
