Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

Under every deep a lower deep opens.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

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

Conversation is a game of circles.