I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.