The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

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.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.