George Stillman Hillard Quotes
Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.
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.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.
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.
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.
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.