We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

All progress means war with society.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.