不去尝试办不到的事情, 不去追求得不到的东西, 不居于不能持久的地位, 不推行不可重复的政策。

True courage is not the absence of fear, but moving forward despite it.

There are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend.

——回答兄长孙眉，1884年

The greatest photographers are those who have learned to see the world as it is, and then to see it as it might be.