The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
Good manners require space and time.
Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state