Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.