Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

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.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.