If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)