Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

A true man hates no one.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.