Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

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.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

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

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.