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

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.