PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1834-1858
AND A MEMOIR BY HIS WIFE
1858-1894
"Intellectual living is not so much an accomplishment as a state or condition of the mind in which it seeks earnestly for the highest and purest truth…. If we often blunder and fail for want of perfect wisdom and clear light, have we not the inward assurance that our aspiration has not been all in vain, that it has brought us a little nearer to the Supreme Intellect whose effulgence draws us while it dazzles?"—The Intellectual Life.