Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“Let your rest be perfect in its season, like the rest of waters that are still. If you will have a model or your… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light,… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped these days, when we have the results of them in our… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
