Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never..

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought ….

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

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold..

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization..

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds..

Argument should be polite as well as logical..

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness..

My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of t….

All our tastes are but reminiscences..

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plag….

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts..

Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism..

An artist should have more than two eyes..

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it..

Kindness is virtue itself..

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies o….

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated..

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom o….