Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

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.

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.