I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Mystery hovers over all things here below.
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)