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
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty… — Robert Aris Willmott Arabian Copy Share Image
The discovery of one star is the promise of another. — Robert Aris Willmott Astronomy 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
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 Common Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Anchors 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
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
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
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
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
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 Display 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
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
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
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are… — Robert Aris Willmott Agony 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
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. — Robert Aris Willmott Affliction 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 Eye Copy Share Image
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. — Robert Aris Willmott Employed Copy Share Image
