40 Quotes by Robert Aris Willmott

Education is the apprenticeship of life.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

To study history is to study literature.

Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

It is the empiric who never fails.