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 god- like ease and power.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Morality is the object of government.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.