I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.