When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

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

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.