32 Quotes by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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 alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

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

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 ours.

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

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?