Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
Alphonse de LamartineThe reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
Alphonse de LamartineThe death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.
Alphonse de Lamartine