Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.


The Intellectual Life (ed. 1873)


High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common...

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common...

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common...

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common...