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)

Ink is the transcript of thought.

It is for truth that God created genius.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.