Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

In good writing, words become one with things.