There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
Philip Gilbert HamertonCulture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves
Philip Gilbert HamertonThe art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.
Philip Gilbert HamertonConversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
Philip Gilbert HamertonFew of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton