... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment