An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.