Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

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.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.