Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.