James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Hamerton

Culture enables us to express ourselves.

Painting does not proceed so much by intelligence as by sight and feeling and invention.

Society has only one law, and that is custom.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest realities.

True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.