"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."

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

A man is known by the books he reads.