“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.” MenNeedsArtUseArtistCoursesOpportunityEffortStruggleHe ManDisciplineCircumstancesArt IsLaborOvercomingDifficultyExcellencePatientActiveLondonImpressionParisRomePassiveGreat ArtModeratesGreat ArtistManlyAdverseEminenceThrifty Author:George Stillman Hillard
“Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.” MindMayCharacterEvilOpportunityWealthMoralObjectsEssentialsRootsRelationNoblePursuitAttributesCompetenceLove Of Money Book:The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc Source: The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc