Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

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

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.