Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

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