People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.