Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.