Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotations

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.