Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

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

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

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)

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.