Occupation: Artist Birth: September 10, 1834 Death: November 4, 1894
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children..
Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true..
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us..
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..
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth….
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and obser….
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..
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone..
Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities..
High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common cla….
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist ….
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 overpow….
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness..
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?.
Few 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….
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest..
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do..
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of th….
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances..
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing..