I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

First be a good animal.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.