It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.