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.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

Man's most serious activity is play.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.