Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
Fiction is the microscope of truth.
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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)