Architects cannot teach nature anything.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

... 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.