People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.