Quotes from Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

no one can safely rely upon the higher intellectual pursuits as a protection from money-anxieties.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

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

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

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.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

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

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.