Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

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

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

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

Ink is the transcript of thought.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

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