Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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?

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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…

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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…

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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…

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton