France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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)