There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

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

The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.