The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. Philip Gilbert Hamerton More Quotes by Philip Gilbert Hamerton More Quotes From Philip Gilbert Hamerton Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side. Philip Gilbert Hamerton society powerful law Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities. Philip Gilbert Hamerton society appearance reality There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. Philip Gilbert Hamerton hart cities water Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age. Philip Gilbert Hamerton beautiful friendship art Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life. Philip Gilbert Hamerton friends intellectual age You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student. Philip Gilbert Hamerton anxiety cat may Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. Philip Gilbert Hamerton able men People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. Philip Gilbert Hamerton acquaintance prejudice people All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it. Philip Gilbert Hamerton spiritual heart men
