Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

"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."

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.