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

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

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.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

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)

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

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.