True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

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

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.