Quotes from Robert Aris Willmott

To study history is to study literature.

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

Genius is nourished from within and without.

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.