In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

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

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?