The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

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

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.