Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side. — 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
