Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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)

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.