[1835 – 1902] English writer
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All thoughts are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image until they have been developed.
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
All our education is very much a case of retouching negatives till all the character and individuality is gone.
Count Gattinara di Zubiena sent me this morning what in the innocence of his heart he believes to be a photograph of himself—a smooth, sleek thing like a dummy, and with nothing in it that can conceivably remind me of himself. He did not know that in reality he was sending me a portrait of the photographer, and of his ideas as to what a young Italian Count should look like.
