“Photography helps people to see.”

“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”

“[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally compelled to remain stationary for hours together, waiting till the rain came before continuing my journey.”

“Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.”

“Attend to your Configuration.”

“To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.”

“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.”