This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.