Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

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

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.

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

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

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

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.