In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.