Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.