If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
The majority of my work is about preparation.
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
There are things one must do for oneself.
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