18 Quotes by 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.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

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.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.