Occupation: Artist Birth: September 10, 1834 Death: November 4, 1894
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks..
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention..
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure..
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 o….
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing..
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..
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 ….
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do..
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….
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….
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..
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..
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness..