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.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

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

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

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

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.