Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“The love of landscape is a modern passion.”

“All human happiness is alloyed with some degree of imperfection.”

“A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.”

“The truth is, that to enjoy the world, we must be keenly susceptible to the pleasures of the senses.”

“It is in the nature of things that the highest art should be rare.”

“The art of living is to have a firm grasp of the simple, homely, elementary virtues.”

“There is a great difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.”

“Our happiness depends on the prudent management of our affections.”

“The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.”

“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”

“The intellectual life is not a thing of the library and the study, but of the world and of action.”

“The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning than the possession of wealth constitutes happiness.”