Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

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.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.