Depression is rage spread thin.

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

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.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.