The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

The source of genius is imagination alone.