The Most Effective Coquetry Is Innocence.

Joy Is A Flame Which Association Alone Can Keep Alive, And Which Goes Out Unless Communicated.

The Photographer Will Never Replace The Painter; One Is A Man, The Other A Machine. Let Us Compare Them No Longer. (1848)

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 Of Their Nature, Their Instincts, Their Sensations, Their Obtuse Intelligence, Assisted By Organs Less Perfect Than Ours, There Is A Clouded, Secret Sentiment Of This Existence Of A Superior And Primordial Being, From Whom All Emanates, And To Whom All Returns.

Music Is The Literature Of The Heart; It Commences Where Speech Ends.

True Love Is The Ripe Fruit Of A Lifetime.