The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

- George Stillman Hillard

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardl…

- George Stillman Hillard

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

- George Stillman Hillard

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

- George Stillman Hillard

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

- George Stillman Hillard

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

- George Stillman Hillard

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

- George Stillman Hillard

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

- George Stillman Hillard

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient strugg…

- George Stillman Hillard