No sensible person ever made an apology.

"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."

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.