I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

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

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.