The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Good manners require space and time.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.