True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.