Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

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

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

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)

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.