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

At twenty every one is republican..

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that….

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

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of ….

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nat….

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

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters..

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge..

Modesty and dew love the shade..

Man is God by his faculty for thought..

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

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Mad….

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So l….

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shatt….

Unanimity is the mistress of strength..

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?.

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be me….

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life..

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state.

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw….