The 100% American is 99% idiot.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.