Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

It is for truth that God created genius.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

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

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.