the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.