Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

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

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.

The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.