Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.