Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.
The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
I think it's important to come from a humble place.
To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
Man needs so little. . . yet he begins wanting so much.
From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.