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

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

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

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

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

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

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