Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.