Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.