| All the human race loves a lord--that is,
loves to look upon or be noticed by the possessor of Power or Conspicuousness;
and sometimes animals, born to better things and higher ideals, descend
to man's level in this matter. In the Jardin des Plantes I have seen a cat
that was so vain of being the personal friend of an elephant that I was
ashamed of her. - "Does the Race of Man Love A Lord" |
 AI image created by Barbara Schmidt |
| "Among other honors heaped upon me
by Englishmen was that of being photographed in parliament. I am not a member
of parliament. But neither am I a member of congress. Has any fellow-American
suggested that I should be photographed in congress? No! I blush to say
they have not. And yet here is an honor that might without risk to bestowed
on any great man. However, it was not bestowed upon Washington, Jefferson
or Lincoln. When I saw that photograph, with the mother of parliaments in
the background and realized my advancing years, I said to myself, 'here
are two noble monuments of antiquity--two shining examples of the survival
of the fittest.'" - quoted in the Boston Daily Globe, May 1, 1910, p. 56 in an article titled "His Camera Craze." |
 July 7, 1907, London, England Photograph by Sir Benjamin Stone |
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